AMD announced today that it will be cutting 1,100 jobs. On Glassdoor.com, AMD currently receives a 3.0 (neutral) employer rating in terms of job satisfaction, and CEO Dirk Meyer has a 44% approval rating. Stay tuned for how ratings will be affected as the impact of layoffs begins to take effect.
Note just a handful of the interesting reviews that talk about the good and the bad at AMD that have been posted over the past few months:
In a review just published yesterday from a MTS Systems Design Engineer at AMD it makes you wonder if the writing was on the wall:
Pros: Interesting technologies, decent company, flexible time off, fairly engineering focused. lone competitor to intel on the cpu front and the lone competitor to intel and nvidia on the graphics front does mean that it is still doing compelling cutting edge research and development.
Cons: poor bonus and stock compensation, too spread out in terms of location. no espp, 401k match is now gone. apparently salary cuts. questionable merger in terms of payouts to on boarding ATI menbers. hiring freezes make it difficult to know whether an approved rec will actually go through, which makes planning difficult. too many contractors in ...
